Ambedkar University to offer add-on courses to top-up degree programmes, Check details

The new center aims to integrate liberal arts education with vocational education and skill training with more focus on soft skill development to make the graduates employable to meet the needs of the job market.

Students who are seeking admission to the Ambedkar University Delhi will now be given an option to top-up their degree courses with add-on certificates. The courses will be offered in link with collaboration with the industry and aim to make them employable. The courses have been curated under the newly set-up Skill Development Centre (SDC). Students will have the benefit to pursue these certificate courses along with their regular degree courses, which have been recommended under the new National Education Policy 2020. 

The new center aims to integrate liberal arts education with vocational education and skill training with more focus on soft skill development to make the graduates employable to meet the needs of the job market. Along with this, the SDC will also work on grooming and training the workforce by offering short-term skill certificate courses and performing entrepreneurial activities. 

The proposed center will offer short-term courses beyond Diploma and B.Voc. Degree level and will get adequately aligned with the National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) levels as per the job roles as specified by the relevant sector skill councils (SSC), informed Sitansu Sekhar Jena, professor in vocational education and dean, School of Vocational Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, as reported by News18.

Candidates must note that the courses will be in sync with the ‘Skills India Program’ for imparting knowledge on vital job skills to the students and workforce, thus enabling students to acquire an additional certificate along with their degree certificates, he informed.

Special skill training programmes which will be of 15 days to six months duration.  The priority areas identified under these courses include logistics, beauty and wellness, IT & ITeS, retail, tourism & hospitality, food processing among others. While organizing the training program, an apprenticeship model could also be used, including industry internships for the trainees.

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